New job board for Analytics

http://www.analyticster.com/

Recession Geography story in NYTimes dated March 3rd

All of often we are fed statistics at too high a level. For example, unemployement in December 2008 stood at 7.1%. That's one statistic, but put the unemployment data on a county-level map, and you'll quickly see patterns across hundreds of counties in the US. Hardest-hit areas like California, the rustbelt, and parts of the South are highlighted in deep reds, whereas areas that are doing pretty well, like the North East and Mid section of the country are light orange.

The Times' story points out that areas that saw a boom in housing are seeing a bust in unemployement. The story is here and the county level map is here.

New googlemap mashup

This is a pretty good mixture of google maps with apartment rental data. The map aspect of the tool let's you search within a radius of a chosen point. I'm surprised it took so long for someone to develop this when the most important thing in real estate is, location, location, location. 

http://www.myapartmentmap.com/rentaldata/pa/doylestown/

Interactive Budgeting

I had a conversation today about making the city's budgeting process more accessible to the public, and was shown this link from the Kansas DOT as an example. I think it's pretty cool, and a type of tool that could be really useful in some of the conversations that are bound to happen more often as the economy struggles to get back on its feet. 

What do you think works well? What would you change?

Attention all job seekers

Here's a writeup I found on mashable.com on the top 10 social sites for finding a job.

Stimulating comparisions of 2 Treemaps showing the stimulas package

Whose do you like better?

Hives

or

Juices

Is there a better way to summarize the 407 pdf detailing the plan?

BTW, Juice came out with their display first. I think it was released a couple of days ago, as part of their open source SDK, which is a great idea. I learned of Hive's implementation from a linkedin post.

Story in today's NYTimes about the maps and cellphones

“I always said the next interface would be Quake,” said Steve Capps, one of the designers of the original Macintosh interface, referring to the popular video game. “How long will it be before you come out of the subway and you hold up your screen to get a better view of what you’re looking at in the physical world?”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/science/17map.html?_r=1&8dpc